Business models: Leasing equipment
Over their lifetimes, television facilities must buy new equipment and expand. And soon they will have to bear the additional expense of making the transition to digital television. But, with the downturn in advertising revenue over recent months, not everyone can just sit down and write a check.
Olympic Players
Accom will provide two turnkey broadcast equipment packages incorporating the Abekas 8150 Digital Vision mixer with Dveous digital video effects.
Business Models: PPV/VOD
Video on demand (VOD) and interactive television (iTV) currently seem to be popular topics with broadcasters.
PBS with commercials?
In a three-to-one vote in mid-October, the FCC made what could end up being a landmark decision.
Weather Systems
There are three key technologies involved in the display and presentation of weather on television today: radar, satellites and computers. The application of these elements in each market varies depending on local conditions and budget considerations.
Don't delete the commercials!
Viacom's CBS, Disney's ABC, General Electric's NBC and other media companies filed a multi-million dollar suit against ReplayTV and its owner SonicBlue in late October. The companies took legal issue with ReplayTV for providing a feature that many viewers have been using on their VCRs since VCRs first hit the market.
Multifunctional MPEG Chips
The rapidly evolving MPEG-4 standard reduces bandwidth and storage requirements and improves video quality relative to MPEG-2.
Making 8VSB work!
Does 8VSB work? In a word, yes, but it needs all the help the technical community can give it to replicate the coverage of its grandpa - analog NTSC - and a whole lot more.
Congress pushes FCC
Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, held a meeting in late October on how to speed up the DTV transition.
War coverage technology
Ask almost any war correspondent and they'll tell you that covering a story is the easy part — filing it is a much different situation. Today's network news directors expect their field reporters to feed their stories back in for broadcast promptly and even do live shots.
New York broadcasters rebuild
Resilience may best describe how America treats adversity. It may also represent well how the broadcasters in New York City met this nation's most recent tragedy.
New 8VSB solutions
While a conventional LMS algorithm can cancel static ghosts, it will not handle dynamic ghosts. One of the major issues plaguing the acceptance of digital
NBC begins central-casting
Cost savings can be achieved through the consolidation of personnel from five or 10 stations into a single facility. With the spiraling costs of doing
States garner revenue from DTH
Florida is implementing a communications tax for DTH services beginning on Oct. 21. North Carolina included in its proposed 2001-2003 state budget a provision
